Thank you for your contributions to the AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String 2020 on ‘Early Spring’. The String is now closed for contributions, but please enjoy the haiku in the String. Contributors have come from Australia and many other countries, which is reflected in the diverse range of haiku.
The Australian Haiku Society welcomes contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String 2020.
We will be holding a Haiku String during the day of the Southern Hemisphere Spring Equinox, which occurs in Australia on Tuesday, 22rd September 2020. The String will remain open for contributions until Friday 25th September to accommodate international poets who may wish to take part. Contributions may be made on the website during these dates (not before).
Spring Equinox Haiku String – Instructions
AHS invites you to share with us your original haiku or senryu on the theme of ‘Early Spring’. We invite you to explore a multiplicity of ideas in the String without necessarily using the words ‘early spring’.
The haiku will be linked by the subject Early Spring. It is not necessary for each haiku to relate to the one before it.
- Please contribute up to three of your best haiku or senryu.
- Haiku should be posted in the comment box at the end of the post. Click on the header to go to the full post and find the comment box.
- Haiku posted must be original work by the poet making the post. Please include your name below each haiku as you wish it to appear.
Posting your work in the AHS Spring Equinox Haiku String 2020 assumes the following:
Copyright of each haiku remains with the author. We request nonexclusive permission to publish your work on AHS website and to republish it in any future online collections on the AHS website.
xxxxxxfirst day of spring
xxxxxxon someone’s shoulders
xxxxxxa toddler
xxxxxxxxxxxxRob Scott
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eucalypt
weeping red tears
sculpting
Phil Saunders, Belair
ardent wren
cobalt blur
mating dance
Phil Saunders, Belair
wrenched from wing
blue-black feather
blood stains on my notes
Phil Saunders, Belair
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spring breeze
the puppy wants to sniff
everything
Polona Oblak
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after the storm
white drifts fringe the footpath
apple blossom
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through bushland
the wattle-scented winds
an age-old dance
Gavin Austin
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spring dawn
a willow whispers
to the wind
Stella Damarjati, Adelaide
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in full bloom
the condemned
cherry tree
Patsy Turner
chopping wood
the scent
of cherry laurel
Patsy Turner
cyclone
the weatherman
flaps his arms
Patsy Turner
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patched in sunlight
the veranda steps
to the back garden
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sheepskin sky
just a tinkling of new day
chorus
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open garden
her veil catches
on the first step
Rose van Son
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first spring days
my starlings late
by two weeks
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spring afternoon
in rural reading room
librarian and flies
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frogs croaking
it stops for a moment
paddle splash
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a tinge of brown
on the golden wattle
swooping magpie
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three eggs
in a mud nest
peewee duet
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ten ducklings
zigzag behind their mum
breadcrumbs
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Louise Hopewell, Melbourne
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fields of red
ploughed and tilled earth
ready for seed
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fields of gold
the canola flowers gleam
in a sunshower
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fields of green
new lambs gather
to prance and nap
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Ron C. Moss, Tasmania
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